The Quarters and Utilities QU platform jacket lowering into Caspian Sea March 2017

Video shows the Quarters and Utilities (QU) platform jacket being placed into the Caspian Sea. The QU platform jacket weighs approximately 12,084 tonnes and stands 105 metres high. It contains 31 J Tubes, 7 utility caissons and 3 J tube caissons. The jacket will be installed in a water depth of 95 metres. The construction of the jacket was completed on Feb. 20, 2017, then successfully loaded onto the transportation barge STB-1 at the quayside of the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) and sailed away to the Shah Deniz contract area on March 15. Lankaran AHTS vessel was involved in the towing operation as leading vessel, where CMS Pahlavan, CMS Igid, CMS3, CMS1 and CMS2 were used as supporting vessels during sail away.